{"id":4536,"date":"2008-09-18T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2008-09-18T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T07:01:00","slug":"its-ok-not-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/its-ok-not-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s OK Not To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
David Frum<\/a>, a former speechwriter for George W Bush, and the man who coined the term ‘Axis of Evil’, writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n Somebody who knew President Bush well once remarked to me. “You’ll notice he never asks questions.”<\/p>\n “Why not?” I said.<\/p>\n “Because he doesn’t know what it’s okay for him not to know.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Frum worries that Sarah Palin is going down that same road, but really, the arrogance born from ignorance is one shared by most politicians and, dare I say it, many commentators. Bush was a disaster for primarily this reason, and the McCain-Palin ticket reeks of it. <\/p>\n Barack Obama, on the other hand, seems to have a more inquiring mind and a capacity for nuance—the books written by him attest to this, as do many of his interviews (such as the one I mentioned here<\/a>), even if he often has to feign certainty on the campaign trail for obviously political reasons.<\/p>\n I could be reading him wrong, of course. I hope we get a chance to find out.<\/p>\n (Link via Marginal Revolution<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Frum<\/a>, a former speechwriter for George W Bush, and the man who coined the term ‘Axis of Evil’, writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n Somebody who knew President Bush well once remarked to me. “You’ll notice he never asks questions.”<\/p>\n “Why not?” I said.<\/p>\n “Because he doesn’t know what it’s okay for him not to know.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Frum worries that Sarah Palin is going down that same road, but really, the arrogance born from ignorance is one shared by most politicians and, dare I say it, many commentators. Bush was a disaster for primarily this reason, and the McCain-Palin ticket reeks of it. <\/p>\n Barack Obama, on the other hand, seems to have a more inquiring mind and a capacity for nuance—the books written by him attest to this, as do many of his interviews (such as the one I mentioned here<\/a>), even if he often has to feign certainty on the campaign trail for obviously political reasons.<\/p>\n I could be reading him wrong, of course. I hope we get a chance to find out.<\/p>\n\n
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